AIBU ice cream truck

[Hesalwaysplayinggolf]

So we live on a quiet residential road.
My daughter goes to bed at 7pm every night.
3-4 nights a week an ice cream van drives and parks down our road blaring his ice cream truck music. This varies in timing but can be as late as 8pm. Usually between 7-8pm.
This wakes my daughter every time and she takes ages to resettle. She’s genuinely scared.

AIBU to talk to the ice cream man about this?
My husband thinks I’m ridiculous. I think it’s a mickey take to be blaring loud music at 8pm.

We have her window closed and white noise in her room but it still wakes her. I know I could put her to bed once he’s been but he doesn’t come every night so it’s hard to know and she is tired by 7pm.

Fir example tonight dd went to bed at 7pm, I sat down to eat at 7.45 and by 7.50pm he had woken her up. Just got her back down 30mins later.

YABU - Put up with it he’s just earning his living
YANBU - This would annoy me too

@DeusInAbsentia that's so funny.

Glad the original lady didn't stand for it

Me too, she was great. We've moved since, but she knew our dog used to love a cornet so she'd save any broken cones she had for him 😂

Ah, I’m sorry - I thought this was one of those ‘Only a man would say/do that’ type posts.

No worries. I can see how it read like that!

I think they’ve cottoned on to the fact that adults are the ones with money so they target them (and older kids who are out until dusk)

ours is out until it gets dark here but my boy doesn’t sleep til late anyway so it’s not come up

I think while it’s silly if it’s not that loud (eg not audible over tv) but some vans are so loud & seem to play drum & bass between typical ice cream jingles & that would irritate the shit out of me & I would probably say something & if that didn’t work, take his number plate down & report him

I thought the ones after 6pm were just the drugs kind?

This sounds like my road. My youngest is in bed at 6.30, then it's 7.30 for the next and finally 8pm for the last one. It's a pain in the a* when he wakes the kids up. Latest I've clocked him is 8.30pm and it's directly outside the house too as he stops at the end of our drive.

@sleighbellsjiggling you're my kind of person lol love that idea

Hahaha ice cream man's just turned up here

Where i live they aren't allowed to play the music after 7pm.and they blow a whistle instead. From what I heard it came about because a neighbour complained to the council about it wakening her kids.

Shut her window after she's gone to bed, and open it again once the guy has played his tune.

Its just semantics, why are you trying to pick at this?

@daimbarsatemydogsbone
I think it is an American term for ice cream van.

Oh dear. You haven’t RTFT, have you?

I had that situation in the UK. Sent me doolally and ended up on tablets (still on them 18 years later).

😂 you're a day late and a dollar short.

And yes, I said 'dollar'

do you see ppl buying from this truck? id go out and tell him he wd have more ppl buy if he came round earlier @6-6.30 as thats when you and ppl round there finish dinner, and some ppl have said they wont buy from him as hes so late and it wakes their kids every time!!

If you have a physical reaction to words being mis-spelled, I suggest you consult a docter

OP I think you are being totally reasonable and I’d feel the same.

Going back to the use of the word van V truck (sorry 🫣), the English language has West Germanic origins. They call an ice cream van a ‘Eiswagen’, according to good ole google! Hmmm, is it an ice-cream ‘wagon’ then? 😆🫣

Call it whatever you want. Speak in Americanisms if you like, my son is 6 and autistic and he often speaks in an American accent because of the things he likes to watch. It doesn’t bother me at all because it makes him happy. No issue is there really.

Is this a serious question 🤣🤦‍♀️

Fairly useless ice cram van if they come round when all small people are in bed. Ours used to visit at weekends in middle of day. Which sounds more likely to get sales. Have a word with the vendor.

I’d have a word with the driver of the van/truck & ask if he can possibly turn it down a bit as 7pm is bed time & not a great time to be blaring tinny ice cream van/truck music. No harm in asking & if you don’t ask you’ll never know the answer; in my book anyway.
I’ve always told my kids that the ice cream van/truck playing music is them saying goodbye & sorry because they have run out of ice cream. In the start it was sadly because we just couldn’t afford to get them but it has carried on as an unwritten rule in our house 😂
If we get an ice cream from a van it tends to be at events that we have saved & budgeted for & they are never playing the music so my little white lie/rule is carried on.
At home we always have some flavour of ice cream & ice lollies in the freezer so I rarely buy from the guy in the street.

OMG so funny you mention autistic kids & American accents.
What is that all about?
Do you think it is possibly because it is more melodic that the British accent?

My friends little boy is very autistic & has a proper southern states of America - think Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana areas - accent all the time. It is so good he actually sounds like he is from America & it sounds so cute.
It was a bit confusing the 1st time I heard him speak that way but now i know it is just how he speaks.
He does watch American kids & families opening things on YouTube but their accent isn’t as full on as his.

I remember them being outside our house when I was in bed as a child. I'm just happy to hear that they're still around as so much has disappeared.

It depends what country you're in. In the UK, specifically England there are noise restrictions
If you are in the UK look on your LA website for Environmental Health and explore what the time restrictions are on noise/tunes/bells from these sort of vans/trucks.